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4. The title of the paper should be at the top of the first page and centered. Any abstract written for the paper will only be used for the review process, and will not appear in the journal publication. For this reason, authors should write the introduction and conclusion to their paper assuming that there will be no abstract to the paper if it is finally published in the journal.

5. All spelling must be in American English. Authors must edit British spelling previous to submission.

6. Please use Times New Roman (12) font. Do not use other fonts because these suggest the paper is short but when converted to Times New Roman (12), the pages become longer.

7. Depending on the nature of one’s paper, generally most papers would need the following sections: introduction, literature review, methods of data collection (if relevant), presentation and analysis of data collected, and summary/conclusion. Well structured papers make it easier for reviewers to review and evaluate the quality of arguments and analysis

8. The main section headings for the paper should be centered on the page, and then minor sub-headings or sub-sections should be justified on the left hand side of the page. This will make it easier for reviewers to know that a sub-section is under a major section.

9. The Journal of Third World Studies does not cite references or sources in the body of the paper with name of author, date of publication, and page number in brackets. The journal uses consecutive regular number citations (1,2,3,4,5,etc,etc), NOT ROMAN NUMERALS, in the body of the paper with corresponding numbers and sources listed separately under NOTES at the end of the paper.

Journal Articles:2. Samuel Zalanga, “Indigenous Capitalists: The Development of the Indigenous Investment Companies in Relation to Class, Ethnicity, and the State in Malaysia and Fiji,” (with Erik Larsen), Political Power and Social Theory 16 (2004), 75-101.

Repeat of citation after intervening citation:10. J. Patrice McSherry, Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina p.45.

10. All manuscript submissions must be accompanied by a statement from the author(s) affirming that the submission (1) is not being concurrently reviewed by another journal or press: (2) has not been published or will not be published elsewhere; and (3) will not be withdrawn once the manuscript enters the review process.

PRESIDENT : Dr. Norman Provizer, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Campus Box 43, Denver, CO 80217. E-Mail: provizen@MSUdenver.edu

The Nominations and Elections Committee is currently accepting nominations for seven (7) positions on the ATWS Executive Council. All positions are for a three-year term. The VP/President Elect serves one year as VP, one year as President, and one year as Immediate Past President.

According to the Constitution, we need two candidates for each of the following positions:

Contact the individual you wish to nominate to see if they are willing to serve on the Executive Council. Candidates must be members of ATWS who have paid their annual dues. Please feel free to nominate yourself. Send the complete name, university or professional affiliation, and e-mail address of the nominee to Michael Hall, at michael.hall@armstrong.edu before 25August 2015.

Election Process

Nominees who are selected as candidates must send a brief biographical sketch that can include information such as professional activities; participation in ATWS activities; and reasons for wanting to serve. Election ballots will be available by 15 September 2015 and members have until 15 October 2015 to cast their votes. Election results will be announced at the annual conference in Quito in November.

Michael Hall
Chair, Nominations and Elections Committee

DR. PETER A. DUMBUYA APPOINTED NEW ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF AFRICAN SECTIONS OF JTWS

Dr. Peter A. Dumbuya, Ph.D., Professor of History at Fort Valley State University (FVSU), was appointed by a unanimous vote of the Executive Council of ATWS to be the new Associate Editor of the African sections of the Journal of Third World Studies (JTWS). Dr. Dumbuya replaces Dr. Samuel Zalanga who performed six years of dedicated and superlative service in this position.

According to Dr. Harold Isaacs, Editor of JTWS, “Dr. Dumbuya is a great person and a prolific scholar. JTWS is really fortunate to have him as its specialist on Africa. I look forward to working with Peter.”

Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, President of FVSU, indicated “Dr. Dumbuya’s appointment to the editorial leadership of this prestigious scholarly journal is testimony to his recognition as an international scholar, and it enables our entire university to wear this as a feather in our institutional cap.”

Professor Dumbuya received his Ph.D. from the University of Akron. He also earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Faulkner University. He is the author of several books, to include Re-Inventing the Colonial State: Constitutionalism, One­Party Rule, and Civil War in Sierra Leone. He has also published numerous articles and book reviews in peer-­reviewed journals.

Dr. Dumbuya received a Fulbright Scholar Program grant to conduct research in Sierra Leone (2013­-2014).

THE THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL ATWS MEETING IN DENVER, COLORADO

The Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS) was held at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, October 16-18, 2014.The conclave featured 75 attendees from around the world who participated in 16 panels and round tables that focused on the theme, “The Coming Decade: The Role of Leadership, Institutions and Culture in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.”

The conference was co-sponsored by ATWS, Metropolitan State University of Denver , Georgia Southwestern State University, and Louisiana State University Shreveport.

Special thanks and appreciation are extended to the following individuals and academic entities: Dr. Norman Provizer, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Dr. Lisa Saye, The Policy Analysis Institute; Mrs. Trish McEvoy, and student workers in the Certification Office at Millersville University Millersville University, Dr. William Pederson, Louisiana State University Shreveport; The Office of the President and Office of International Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver; and The Departments of Political Science, Africana Studies, and Chicana Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

The keynote address, “The Coming Decade,” was presented by Ved Nanda, John Evans Distinquished University Professor: Director of the Ved Nanda Center for the Study of Comparative amd International Law;University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

Co-winners of the Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Memorial Scholarship Award were Doyin Coker-Kolo, Millersville University, and William K. Darley, University of Toledo,for their superlative article, “The Role of African Universities in a Changing World,” Journal of Third World Studies, Volume 30, No. 1 (Spring, 2013) Cecil B. Currey ATWS Book Length Publications Award winner was Michael J. Hathaway, Simon Fraser University, for his outstanding study, Environmental Winds; Making the Global in Southwest Asia, published by University of California Press in 2013.The 2014 Toyin Falola ATWS Africa Book Award winner was Cati Coe, Rutgers University, Camden Campus, for her excellent study, The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2014.

Official Announcement The Cecil Currey ATWS Book Award Committee comprised of the Chair, Dr. William P. Head, and Members, Dr. Paul Magnarella, Dr. Philip Aka, and Dr. Paul Rodell as is its mandate reviewed three very excellent books to determine the recipient of the2015 Currey Award. These books included J. Patrice McSherry, Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music, 1960s—1973, Temple University Press; Kema Irogbe, The Effects of Globalization in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, Lexington Books; and Jie Lu, Varieties of Governance in China: Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages, Oxford University Press.

After reading each book carefully and discussing the relative merits of each one, the four committee members ranked each book. All of them were very well researched and written.After much consideration the majority of the committee members selected Dr. McSherry’s book Chilean New Song as the winner of the 2015 award. We were all very impressed with the other two books and we wish all the authors the best of luck with the sale and review of their books. It is the opinion of the committee that these important works will have a very positive impact on the study of the developing world.

Bill Head

CALL FOR BOOKS THE 2014-2015 TOYIN FALOLA ATWS AFRICA BOOK AWARD

The Toyin Falola Africa Book Award, in honor of Toyin Falola, one of Africa’s outstanding historians and intellectuals, will be given for the best book on Africa published in 2014-15. Book submissions must be published in 2014 through June 15, 2015. The deadline for the submission of entries is June 30, 2015. The award will not automatically be given each year, but only whenever the committee decides that a book of considerable merit has been submitted. ATWS members are encouraged to enter their publications into the competition. The recipient will receive a plaque, citation, and a $500 cash award.

Qualifications are:

1. Only monographs and studies will be considered. Please do not submit anthologies or edited works.

2. An individual who wishes to be considered must send a letter of application to the committee chair, Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, The African Institution, 7532 Eighth Street, NW Washington, DC 20012. theai@earthlink.net

3. Publishers are permitted to nominate an author’s book as long as the above rules are observed.

4. An individual seeking the award is responsible for sending a copy of his/her book to each member of the committee.

Named in honor of the late Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, professor of history and friend of several post-colonial leaders, the Reddick Award is given annually to the best article to appear in the Journal of Third World Studies, the flagship journal of the ATWS. The award was established during the ATWS presidency of John Mukum Mbaku as a result of the initiative and funding provided by A.B. Assensoh, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington and Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Vice-President for Equity and Inclusion, University of Oregon. A selection committee is named each year to pick the recipient. Dr. Reddick, a prolific scholar who wrote the first authorized biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. {Crusader Without Violence}, died in 1995 in New Orleans, Louisiana. A selection committee is named each year to pick the recipient.

THE ATWS ANNOUNCES THE 2015 HAROLD ISAACS AWARD COMPETITION FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

At its 2001 meeting the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS) instituted The Harold Isaacs Award competition for graduate students. The Award is named in honor of the Association’s founding president and aimed toward supporting research focusing on the various problems facing “Third World” peoples. The Award will be made to the top graduate paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association. The Award is designed to encourage high quality research and writing among graduate students who have an interest in Third World studies. All candidates MUST have their papers accepted for presentation at the meeting in order to be eligible for the competition AND they MUST be present at the 2015 ATWS meeting to deliver their paper. The winner will be presented with a $400 check award and plaque at the annual meeting’s banquet. Other selected graduate student papers may also be presented with Certificates of Excellence AND they must be present at the 2015 ATWS meeting to deliver their paper.

The selection procedure is as follows: students will submit abstracts of their papers according to established procedures of the Association (see Call for Papers on ATWS website, http://apps.gsw.edu/atws Paper submissions MUST follow “Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts” for Journal of Third World Studies (JTWS). Click-on Journal of Third World Studies on the ATWS website. Upon acceptance for presentation at the 2015 meeting, the student will send an electronic copy of the completed paper to the Education Committee Chair. The deadline for receipt of the papers is 30 SEPTEMBER 2015. The current chair is Dr. Mueni wa Muiu, Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Social Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC 27110. E-mail: muium@wssu.edu and two other ATWS members will compose the Graduate Student Award Selection Subcommittee.

Interested graduate students must submit papers that (1) demonstrate originality in terms of research area and/or interpretation, 2) contribute to the intellectual debates within the subject area in which they are framed, and 3) present well-substantiated arguments. Please note that submissions should be near ready for publication. The winning paper will be published in the Journal of Third World Studies after any revisions suggested by the Review Subcommittee.

Membership is open to any person interested in Third World Studies.
Membership benefits include an annual subscription to Journal of Third
World Studies (JTWS), the ATWS Newsletter, and an invitation to
participate in the annual meeting at a reduced registration rate.

ATWS Membership Directory
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This Membership Directory is the property of Association of Third World Studies, Inc. (ATWS), and to be used only by ATWS members. No other person or group is authorized to use it for solicitation, marketing, or any other purposes. If you have any questions, please contact:

Dr. Doyin Coker-Kolo
School of Education
Millersville University
P.O. Box 1002
Millersville, PA 17551-0302doyinck@gmail.com
Area/Country/Topical Interest(s); Third World Development and Education; Role of Women in Third World Development

Shahab Ghobadi
Department of Linguistics and English Literature
University of Kurdistan, Iranarashavin@gmail.com
Area/Country/Topical Interests/ Globalization, Gender Studies, Civil Society, Ethnicity, and Minorities in the Context of the Middle East

Dr. William Head LM
111 Chantilly Drive
Warner Robins, GA 31088billhead@juno.com
Area/Country/Topical Interest(s): Military & Diplomatic History; U.S. Relations with East Asia; U.S. Involvement in Vietnam War

Egodi Uchendu, PhD
Professor of History
Department of History and International Studies
University of Nigeria
Nsukka — NIGERIAegodi.uchendu@unn.edu.ng
Areas & Interests: Africa, Nigeria, Islam and Conversions, Gender and Conflict, Historiography

Science is the cornerstone of development. As the connection between scientific advancement and development becomes firmer, efforts are directed towards strengthening the scientific system. This is increasingly relevant and indispensable for countries on the path to scientific progress. Collaboration has been accepted as a key factor in scientific advancement, and the effects of collaboration are often manifested in the productivity of scientists.

This book explores how science in South Africa has grown due to collaboration over the course of its colonial, apartheid and democratic regimes. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of collaboration in science and its relation to communication, networks and the productivity of scientists. In giving a detailed account of the concept of scientific collaboration, the South African model presented in this book has great significance not only for other African countries but also for developing nations generally. Transforming Science in South Africa: Development, Collaboration and Productivity will be of interest to anyone who wants to know how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world.

R. Sooryamoorthy is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kwa-Zula-Natal, South Africa.

Abdul Karim Bangura’s 86th Book Published by Palgrave Macmillan

Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies
Abdul Karim Bangura
Hardcover (312 pages)
$90.00 + delivery
ISBN 9781137495167
Publication Date February 2015
Formats Hardcover
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
This book entails four clearly articulated rubrics and overarching concepts as the foundational basis for analyzing Toyin Falola’s work: biography and knowledge production, Africa in the configuration of knowledge, the Yoruba in the configuration of knowledge, and the value of knowledge in terms of policies and politics. The chapters are located within broader epistemological perspectives and undertake critical interpretations and explanations of Falola’s writings. Falola’s ideas are extended into greater realms of meaning by employing analytical tools from the fields of political science, economics, literature, linguistics, computer science, mathematics, and religious studies. Furthermore, the book situates Falola’s ideas in their historical contexts. This approach involves examining related events occurring during the times of the main events of his studies, thereby allowing readers to grasp many subtle details and background information that account for the types of meanings embedded in his writings.
The originality of this book therefore hinges upon the clarity with which familiar but unconnected facts about Falola’s writings are marshaled into a simpler, pluridisciplinarily analytical unity.

Dipankar Sinha is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, “Development Narratives: Walking the Field in Rural West Bengal.” Development is a contested concept involving abundant local-level controversies and negotiations. Its multifarious workings on the ground are not always captured by the academic genre of research reports, with their classic methodologies of statistical sampling and objective questionnaires. Instead, this book offers a narrative based ‘field view’ of development, with the aim of gathering an intimate understanding of development as lived, negotiated and told. Based on the author’s fieldwork in rural West Bengal in the mid-1990s and 2000s, the narratives presented here foreground the political, moral and experiential dimensions of ordinary rural people’s everyday encounters with development.

Ishmael I. Munene, “Multi-campus University Systems: African and Kenyan Experiences,” Routledge, 2014. The book, part of Routledge series on international and comparative education, analyzes the paradox surrounding the performance of multi-campus university systems as avenues of broadening university access but whose structural success may be qualitatively contested.

Abdul Bangura et al, “Assessing Barack Obama’s Africa Policy Suggestions for Him and African Leaders, University Press of America, 2014.” This book contains critical analyses of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy instruments toward Africa and suggests how to continue, strengthen, and modify these policy instruments. The examination begins with the theme of policy continuity and change, followed by those on military intervention, competition and perceived threats, crisis management, politics, economic development, and social policy. Each chapter starts with an introduction of the policy instrument, provides an analysis of the instrument, and concludes with suggestions. This book presents the objectives for vibrant and lasting relations between Africa and the United States and the concrete measures to achieve them.

This is a major new volume in the Routledge International Handbooks series analysing emerging and newly emerged economies, including the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and other likely (Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Korea) as well as possible (Vietnam, The Philippines, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, Colombia and Argentina) candidates for emerging economy status.

Chapters on theories surrounding emerging markets (including the Beijing/Washington Consensus debate) offer an overview of current issues in development economics, in addition to providing an integrated framework for the country case studies. Written by experts, this handbook will be invaluable to academics and students of economics and emerging economies, as well as to business people and researchers seeking information on economic development and the accelerating pace of globalization.

“Malcolm X: A Biography” is a historical and political analysis of the black leader’s life and times, offering a detailed treatment of its subject’s multifaceted story. Laid out chronologically, the book treats Malcolm’s life from his birth through his childhood, adult life, work as a Civil Rights activist, and assassination.

Readers will learn about the torching of Malcolm’s family’s Lansing, MI, home when he was a young child and about the death of his father a few years later–both acts attributed to a white supremacist organization. They will learn of his participation in narcotics, prostitution, and gambling rings and of his arrest and prison term. And they will learn about his discovery of the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, his conversion to the Muslim faith, his break with NOI, and his eventual espousal of faith in integration. Finally, the book looks at Malcolm’s assassination and at his legacy and importance today.

Development Communication: Contexts for the Twenty-first Century

Dipankar Sinha, Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta.

This volume looks at the origins, theoretical underpinnings and major debates in the discipline of Development Communication. While arguing for its place among the social sciences, the author critically scrutinises both the concepts of ‘development’ and ‘communication’. This book highlights the discipline and its applications in India. The author has provided case studies of various development communication initiatives undertaken in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Pondicherry to illustrate these.

The volume will be invaluable for students and researchers in departments and institutes teaching mass communication, political science, development studies and sociology. more >>

This definitive study surveys the concepts, values, and historical upheavals that have shaped African political systems from the ancient period to the post-colonial era and beyond. Beginning with the emergence of indigenous political institutions, it traces the most important developments in African history, including the Africanization of Islam, liberal democratic movements, socialism, Pan-Africanism, and Africanist-Populist reistance to the neo-liberal world order. The result is an invaluable resource on a region too often ignored in the history of political thought.

“In this excellent book, Guy Martin has conducted the most comprehensive study of African political thought by masterfully examining the various philosophical strands. As well, he systematically probed the historical development of each ideology from antiquity to present, including the significant, but under-researched contributions of indigenous African political system. This book is a must-read for those who are interested in African political philosophy” (George Klay Kieh, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of West Georgia, USA).

The book’s page on the Palgrave website is: http//us.macmillan.com/african political thought

Mueni wa Muiu, The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; ISBN-13:978-0-230-60815-3; ISBN-10:0-230-60815-9; 239 PP., including bibliography and index

Title: Ethnicity and Sociopolitical Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries:

A Constructive Discourse in State Building
Editor: Santosh Saha
Publisher: Lexington Books
Year of Publication: 2008
Discounted Price: $55.25 (15% off)
List Price: $65.00
Cloth 0-7391-2332-7 / 978-0-7391-2332-4
Mar 2008 266pp
To Purchase Copies: http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/catalog (Type in “Santosh Saha” in Author space)
According to Clayton J. Peoples, University of Nevada, Reno, “Saha has put together an impressive set of new articles and essays that challenge the conventional pessimistic view of ethnicity as a negative force in African and other developing nations, instead illustrating the positive role of ethnicity in political and social life. This is a refreshing perspective on the value of ethnic diversity at a time when ethnicity is too often cited as the primary source of social ills and conflict. It is therefore a valuable book for anyone seeking a more balanced perspective on the multifaceted—and potentially positive—role of ethnicity in the developing world.”

This edited collection of essays answers a basic question posed by contemporary discourse on state building: How might people’s identification with a particular ethnic group matter? Essays in this book use an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to understanding regional and local community culture and socio-political development in developing countries-especially in Sub-Saharan Africa-to argue that the state, as well as civil society, confers on cultural differences a legitimacy that can be achieved in no other way but by positive cooperation. Contributors from different countries look at local patterns in state building and modernization as they have unfolded over the course of the last fifty years. They claim that the people and ethnic groups in most developing countries adhere to a concept of popular sovereignty that testifies that aspects of positive and moral ethnicity can contribute to social change as in China, economic development as in India, or in a democratization process as in Rwanda and Burundi. The eventual methodological assumption made by these essays presumes that ethnic conflicts in such countries as Cyprus, Turkey, India, and Rwanda have no moral sanction; ethnicity has not assumed a political ideology. One conclusion reached by the contributors is that some form of accommodation between opposing ethnically diversified groups, as well as between state and ethnic elements, is feasible.

Table of Contents for Ethnicity and Sociopolitical Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries:

A Constructive Discourse in State Building.

Moral Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan African National Identity Issues: Ethnicity and State-Building
*Santosh C. Saha
Reconstructing or Dismantling the Nation? A New Rwanda
* Helen M. Hintjens
Education for Social Change in Burundi and Rwanda: Creating a National Identity beyond the Politics of Ethnicity
* Elavie Ndura and Johnson W. Makoba
Rwanda-Burundi’s “National-Ethnic” Dilemma: Democracy, Deep Divisions and Conflict Re-Represent
* Rita Kiki Edozie
Overstating the Connection between Ethnicity and Military Coups D’Etats in Africa: A Meta-analysis
* Abdul Karim Bangura
Other Developing Countries: Third-Party Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: Turkey’s Intervention in Cyprus and Role Theory
* Gaurav Ghose
Ethnicity and the Role of Education as a Mechanism for National Unity in China
* Gerard Postiglione
Ethnic and Civil Nationhood in India: Concept, History, Institutional Innovations and Contemporary Challenges
* Harihar Bhattacharyya
The Palestinians and the Kurds: A Comparative Analysis
* Nader Entessar and Mir Zohair Husain

Title: Africa and the New Globalization (192 PP +index), 2008
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company, United Kingdom
Editor: George Klay Kieh, Jr.
Contributors: George Klay Kieh, Jr., P.I. Idahosa, Jack Mangala, John Mbaku, E.Ike Udogu, all members of the ASRF/ATWS family; and Amy Paterson, a friend of the ASRF/ATWS family
To Purchase Copies: http://www.ashgatepublishing.com

The Editor, George Klay Kieh, Jr., has this to say:
” I would like to thank John Mbaku, the former President of the African Studies and Research Forum, Ike Udogu, the former Director of Research and Publications, Moju Okome, the current President of the ASRF, and Abdul Karim Bangura, the current Director of Research and Publications of the ASRF, for their support which helped make the publication of the book a reality.”

Authors: Erin McCandless and Karim Bangura; Editors: Mary
E. King and Ebrima Sall. Peace Research for Africa: Critical Essays on Methodology
United Nations for Peace Press, 2007.
To order a copy contact the following:

This unique collection, located in the GSW James Earl Carter Library, was donated in April 2001 by Dr. Harold Isaacs, GSW Professor Emeritus of History. The collection, a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in the Third World, includes books, periodicals, newspapers, audio cassettes, video tapes, correspondence, and other documents bearing on the Third World in Perspective Program Seminar Series (1981- ), Association of Third World Studies (ATWS, 1983-), and Journal of Third World Studies (JTWS, 1984), institutions created and developed by Dr. Isaacs with the support and assistance of scholars around the globe.

The section on the Third World in Perspective Program Seminar Series contains letters, brochures, and newspaper accounts related to the almost 150 seminars held since 1981. The ATWS materials include information on the founding and history of the organization, key members, annual meetings, newsletters, awards, website, elections and UN consultative status. Journal of Third World Studies section features the editor and associate editors, publicity on published issues, reviews of manuscript submissions, and the title pages and table of contents of each issue.

The Nominations and Elections Committee is currently accepting nominations for two (2) positions on the ATWS Executive Council:

1. VP/President Elect [one year term]

2. Executive Council Position #1 [three year term]

Steps to Nominate

A. Contact the individual you wish to nominate to see if they are able and willing to serve on the Executive Council before nominating the candidate. Please feel free to nominate yourself!

B. Send the complete name, university (or professional) affiliation, and e-mail address of the nominee to Michael Hall, chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee at michael.hall@armstrong.edu before 20 August 2014.

Election Process

A. Nominees who are selected as candidates (according to the Constitution, we need two candidates for each position) must send a brief biographical sketch that includes information such as professional activities; length of membership and participation in ATWS; and reasons for wanting to serve on the Executive Council.

B. Electronic election ballots will be sent on 1 September 2014 and members have until 1 October 2014 to cast their votes.

C. Election results will be announced at the annual conference in Denver in October.